Chante Saunders is from Nassau, Bahamas, and holds an MSc from The University of The West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, at the Center for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES). Her area of study is in Natural Resources Management and Climate Change, but she also has a background in Meteorology and Environmental Sciences. She has engaged in a research fellowship that looked into the effectiveness of disaster risk communications in Barbados. Her research intends to contribute to disaster risk reduction in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) by better analyzing the impact of communication on Disaster Risk Reduction.